Posts Tagged ‘communities’
Enriching Communities With Public Art – Alexis Kane Speer and Anjuli Solanki (Fall Forum #4 Summary)
Enriching Communities With Public Art – Alexis Kane Speer and Anjuli Solanki – This forum featured the work of STEPS Public Art. This organization works to engage and empower artists and communities in transforming public spaces into vibrant places. Alexis KaneSpeer, the Founding and Executive Director, and Anjuli Solanki, the Director of Community Programming, gave an engaging, informative and very visual presentation.
Read MoreDr. Harold Troper – “None is Too Many”: Thoughts 40 Years Later (Fall Forum #5 on Nov. 23, 2022 at 2:30 pm at Tartu)
On the 40th anniversary of the publishing of Harold Troper’s and Irving Abella’s book, None Is Too Many: Canada and the Jews of Europe, 1933-1948, the story of the Canadian government’s refusal to allow Jewish immigration from Europe during the Holocaust, Professor Troper will discuss the unusual backstory to the writing and publication of the book, how it was received, and the impact it has had on Canadian immigration and refugee policy.
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